60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Mystery.
I have seen the face. Amongst the small white bones wrapped in fabric. Beneath the veins leading to the goddess. Within the black blood of the eucharist.
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You have inherited a train station from a family that never mentioned it. Walk its platforms into Berlin, Paris, New York and Hong Kong across the last century, and learn how a single clue found in one decade rewrites the meaning of another.
Detective Turtletop: Who Killed Harambe?
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
You have inherited a train station from a family that never mentioned it. Walk its platforms into Berlin, Paris, New York and Hong Kong across the last century, and learn how a single clue found in one decade rewrites the meaning of another.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Adventure 16.4%, Noir 16%, Cinematic 15.8%
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Noir 25.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Adventure 8.2%
Drive the night shift through a cursed city where every passenger hides a secret—and some of them died long ago. Uncover the truth behind each fare, make irreversible choices, and decide who deserves to be saved before your final shift ends.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Noir 19.3%, Cinematic 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Adventure 10%
A cinematic sci-fi horror visual novel, with multiple endings and a shocking mature story where your decisions will impact your psichology and the events of the story.
Why similar: Noir 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Cinematic 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dystopian 10.9%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Text-Based 18.9%, Horror 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Lovecraftian 19.7%, Noir 19.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 10.8%
"The Burial of Shortcake" is an unpredictable story. It is a new visual novel with characters which are created/designed by voice actor Nozomi Sasaki, whose "expressiveness" shines throughout her career as a performer.
Why similar: Cinematic 23%, Noir 22.7%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Adventure 17.2%, Mystery 8.3%
"The Bunker Notes" is a visual novel about a concrete trap where the past whispers through the cracks of rusted doors. In this world, survival is everything; meeting another person might be your last mistake.
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Dystopian 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 9.7%
Tokyo Stranger is an aerial genre of text horror game inspired by the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. You play as a tourist from an exotic country, looking for any possibility to escape Tokyo in a static world.
Why similar: Noir 22.6%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Roguelite 14%, Text-Based 13.6%, Lovecraftian 10.9%
Mental pain will never disappear, it will forever torment the soul of the protagonist. Who is he? How did he end up here? Why do dead people appear before him? Who is this girl with bandaged eyes? Eternal Pain: Epiphany is the story of the insight of a person who finds himself in purgatory.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.3%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 11.1%, Horror 8.5%
Explore a stylized recreation of 1935 Providence in this story-focused adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's final work. Investigate clues and uncover the mystery of a looming black church.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.1%, Cinematic 18.5%, Text-Based 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
A cinematic, choice-driven FMV horror. His friends left him alone in the forest as a prank — then hid among the trees in cheap masks to scare him. But not every mask out there is a friend. Every choice matters. Silence is a choice too.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Cinematic 18.1%, Adventure 15.8%, First-Person 6.8%
You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little coastal town of Anchorhead.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Lovecraftian 25%, Text-Based 19.9%, Adventure 15.4%, Horror 9.3%
Choose Your Story: Choices & Decisions game, Mystery visual novel adventure game
Why similar: Noir 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Visual Novel 23%, Adventure 15.1%, Horror 5.7%
A psychological visual novel about grief, memory, and time loops shaped by player choice. Experience a story driven by atmosphere and emotion, where each decision reveals hidden truths and leads toward one of several possible endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Noir 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Cinematic 16.9%, Adventure 14.5%
A 2–4 player cooperative supernatural horror investigation about intervening in recorded tragedies. The opening chapter unfolds in a fog-shrouded 1700s coastal town, where players inhabit different townsfolk and act within a relentless final hour before the outcome becomes irreversible.
Why similar: Noir 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Cinematic 19.5%, Lovecraftian 12.1%, Adventure 8.4%
A place where warmth is but a memory. The night echoes with strange sounds, and uncanny neighbors stir a lingering unease, all steeped in a stale, suffocating air. Yet one question remains—where does this chilling cold truly come from?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.9%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Noir 12.8%, Horror 8.7%
Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Cinematic 16.8%, Adventure 11.5%, Text-Based 8.5%
Typing Ritual is a first-person psychological horror game where players perform a summoning ritual by typing ancient texts. As the ritual progresses, the environment changes, and tension builds. Mistakes have consequences, and time is limited.
Why similar: Noir 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Lovecraftian 17.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Cinematic 10.5%
Dive into the worlds of the best classic weird fiction and cosmic horror writers. Try out our original approach to bringing literature into the interactive medium. Relax and let Dr. Emmerson guide you through all the colors of dread.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Psychological Horror 7.1%
A cinematic point-and-click experience following a girl's struggles with schizophrenia. Your choices dynamically affect not only the way others perceive her, but the way she perceives the world as well. Maintain her trauma and psychosis, or don't and suffer from progressively violent hallucinations.
Why similar: Noir 35.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Cinematic 15.4%, Visual Novel 8.5%, Horror 8.5%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Lovecraftian 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 12.7%
A first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, puzzle-solving, and environmental storytelling. Discover the tragic story of Unit 199, where a fragmented consciousness still haunts the place.
Why similar: Noir 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Lovecraftian 16.7%, Cinematic 16.5%, Horror 6.7%
A linear visual novel voice-acted by Louise Porter, Richard Browning, Krissy Koellia, and others, The Epic of Inanna is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of life and morality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Cinematic 23.2%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Dystopian 15.8%, Adventure 9.8%
An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Noir 22.3%, Cinematic 17.8%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%
The peg doll faces from your childhood bedroom reappear at every turn. Struggle to find a path forward through your own personal hell in this bleak visual novel with light puzzles and point-and-click elements.
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Cinematic 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Dystopian 13.4%, Adventure 8.9%
A compilation of two slow-paced, cosmic horror walking simulators, to be completed in under an hour. Please makes you maintain a power station and ignore the noises from the main engine, while Please Follow has you explore the trenches of a losing war, exposing your mind to visions of another world.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Dystopian 15.6%, Adventure 12.2%, First-Person 9.4%
Faint Echo is a psychological horror visual novel with point-and-click elements. A young man named Denys moves into a cheap apartment, but soon faces disturbing paranormal events. Explore the dark building, uncover its secrets, and try to survive.
Why similar: Noir 25.4%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Lovecraftian 16.1%, Text-Based 16.1%, Adventure 7.6%
《乌合之罪》是一款校园霸凌复仇X悬疑惊悚恋爱的沉浸式AVG，你（玩家）所饰演的主人公将在与外界彻底断联的诡异孤岛上历经一场极端恶意的厮杀，请找回记忆，推进剧情，抵达十四年前遗落的真相……
Why similar: Noir 24.6%, Cinematic 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 11.3%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48%, Text-Based 28.6%, Adventure 23.5%
I wish this moment could be forever. Yuto Habu, the hero with nothing to show for it, met the camera-toting heroine He meets the heroine, Nazuna Fukamachi, who has a camera, on a bridge with a beautiful view by chance.
Why similar: Cinematic 42.4%, Visual Novel 34.4%, Adventure 21.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Noir 22.7%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Text-Based 12.5%, Adventure 6.1%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Horror 10%, Text-Based 9.9%
The walls listen...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Cinematic 21.2%, Dystopian 15.5%, Lovecraftian 12.9%, Adventure 9.6%
Your new colleagues may be demons in disguise. A bleak horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay.
Why similar: Noir 27.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Cinematic 16.1%, Text-Based 14.1%, Dystopian 10.2%
The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.
Why similar: Noir 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Lovecraftian 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Adventure 9.6%
In the 1930's, Samuel, a man with occult beliefs is contacted by S. Stenfield, an elderly man desperate for the suicide of Alice, his daughter. Through a voodoo ritual, Samuel enters a world that only the dead can access. There he will try to recover Alice's soul... But nothing is what it seems.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Cinematic 26.4%, Lovecraftian 17.2%, Adventure 11.7%, First-Person 8.5%
Alone as two, together as one - A fantasy/yuri visual novel telling the story of two girls traversing a snow covered forest and growing closer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Cinematic 24.4%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 15.8%, Adventure 11.5%
This stand-alone prologue puts you in the tiny shoes of Grace Saunders – an 11-year-old girl delivering a letter, when things go horribly wrong… Experience the unique 1920s horror atmosphere of Alone in the Dark and prepare for the terror that awaits in Derceto Manor
Why similar: Noir 29.1%, Cinematic 25.2%, Lovecraftian 17%, Adventure 11.3%, Horror 6.8%
A short visual novel about an endless shift at a garment factory. Wonder what gets you liquidated faster: corruption, naivety, or immorality? Industrial melancholy, where nothing goes unpunished.
Why similar: Cinematic 31.4%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Dystopian 17.9%, Noir 13.9%, Adventure 10.8%
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Text-Based 14.4%, Horror 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Noir 25.3%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Text-Based 7.4%, Adventure 6%
你将扮演一个被AI淘汰的程序员，回到那个停滞的小县城，与那个等了你十二年的女孩一起去寻找，从所有人记忆里消失的发小和尘封的往事，你们追查的不仅仅是真相，还是被AI一起困住的那个夏天、那座小城、那段永远不会结束的等待。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.8%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Adventure 24.4%, Mystery 10.1%
Zion takes on a shady job driving a night taxi. His shifts spiral into eerie rides with ever stranger passengers, as the line between reality and delirium blurs. Each trip drags him deeper into the city’s abyss, where it’s no longer clear what is dream and what is real.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Cinematic 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 8.3%
Explore derelict ship. find out why there is a missing crew. And be careful of things that could be lurking in the shadows.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Cinematic 23.1%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Adventure 18.8%, Horror 2.1%
Elara is a dark, narrative-driven visual novel where players investigate a corporate death, navigate manipulation and power dynamics, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Cinematic 21.4%, Noir 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Adventure 7.5%
NeoTokyo, 2099. The man who sold immortality is dead in a penthouse sealed from the inside. You are detective Kade Katano: scan the scene, read people, roll the dice and decide which truth closes the file. A noir visual novel — one complete case, three endings.
Why similar: Noir 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Cinematic 16.7%, Adventure 10%
紅蜘蛛外伝：暗戦(Red Spider Anecdote: Triangle) is a Hong Kong Noir style Visual Novel.ボイス総収録時間3時間！黒社会を舞台としたハードボイルドなノベルゲーム
Why similar: Noir 37.2%, Cinematic 28.3%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Adventure 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Meridian Archive is a neo-noir crime visual novel set in the sealed world of Notus in 2008. After the disaster known as Saltification, those immune to the disease begin losing their memories—and themselves. Follow a band of Nomads through a violent, surreal world to uncover what went wrong.
Why similar: Noir 29.4%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Dystopian 18.8%, Text-Based 9.5%, Psychological Horror 7.5%
50+ endings! A purely fictional fantasy world! Comedy script, dark plot — and the endings? Pitch-black. Swept into a storm, you need a boss. The revolutionary, the merchant, or the cult leader? Your pick unlocks different paths. You're a cheater with buffs — you'll survive. Go!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.7%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 9.8%, First-Person 7.5%
A hyper-realistic bodycam survival horror experience. Navigate through eerie, abandoned locations where the line between reality and nightmare blurs. Built on Unreal Engine, every sound, shadow, and step immerses you deeper into a world of terror. Will you survive what lies behind the veil?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Cinematic 29.7%, First-Person 10.3%, Horror 8.7%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
This is a new type of ADV game that uses both 2D and 3D. It is important to clear the various stages prepared by the programmer for each stage.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Cinematic 18.7%, Adventure 11.7%, First-Person 7.1%
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, two young men set out on a journey to find The Great Appearance which manifests itself inside mankind's mind.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.2%, Dystopian 20%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 15.3%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 17.9%, Dystopian 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%
Avatar Zero is a text-based interactive narrative centered around “choice.” Set in a cyberpunk dystopia, you become the subject of a secret experiment. Your entire gameplay consists solely of sequential binary choices. Through continuous choices, you will uncover the truth behind the experiment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Adventure 19.4%, Dystopian 14.6%, Text-Based 9.1%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.7%, Visual Novel 24.9%, Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 7%, Horror 6.9%
A cinematic interactive narrative game. Follow a memory investigator as he uncovers the hidden consequences of implanted experiences and confronts a question that could redefine humanity: what separates a life truly lived from a memory merely copied?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Cinematic 21.6%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Adventure 18.2%, Mystery 6.2%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Noir 23.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Adventure 5.7%
A horror adventure where you confront supernatural phenomena and unravel mysteries in a school transformed into another world, all to save your childhood friend. Exploration, combat, and psychological terror await you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Adventure 19.3%, Cinematic 16.8%, First-Person 6.1%
